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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Dec 4, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2D00049300E4D604700002F0338F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > I was irritable today, and definitely not sin free. It is unusual   
   > for me to be irritable during early waxing crescent, I am   
   > more likely to be irritable during waxing gibbous moon,   
   > and more likely to be wobbly or depressed during early   
   > waxing crescent.   
   >   
   > The irritability faded away when I started a new mystic attempt.   
   >   
   > I have also been mildly paranoid after new (dark) moon   
   > when a waning crescent high turned sour after new   
   > moon, as in early September, 1994.   
   >   
   > But right now I feel some nervousness which I liken   
   > to stag(e) fright.   
   >   
   > I haven’t yet sighted the moon for the first time this lunar month.   
   > But I always cite the moon. :-)   
   >   
   > a little wordplay (no steady flow though):   
   >   
   > emotiCon=emotion at the speed of light (C). :-)   
   >   
   > Though when I posted that on Facebook, Facebook converted   
   > the emoticon to an emoji.   
      
   I sighted the early waxing crescent for the first time   
   this lunar month at 4:08 p.m. NST (1938 UTC) Dec. 4,   
   two minutes before sunset. Such a sighting of the   
   moon is important in both Islam and in paganism   
   (and I am a nondenominational neopagan).   
      
   After that I began a new mystic attempt.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill; And the   
   hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand” (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)